TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dawande,Milind W.
AU  - Geismar,H.Neil
AU  - Sethi,Suresh P.
AU  - Sriskandarajah,Chelliah
ED  - SpringerLink (Online service)
TI  - Throughput Optimization in Robotic Cells
T2  - International Series in Operations Research & Management Science,
SN  - 9780387709888
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Boston, MA
PB  - Springer US
KW  - Engineering
KW  - Operations research
KW  - Industrial engineering
KW  - Machinery
KW  - Automation and Robotics
KW  - Industrial and Production Engineering
KW  - Operations Research/Decision Theory
KW  - Mathematical Modeling and Industrial Mathematics
KW  - Manufacturing, Machines, Tools
KW  - Operations Research, Mathematical Programming
N1  - Robotic Cells in Practice -- A Classification Scheme for Robotic Cells and Notation -- Cyclic Production -- Dual-Gripper Robots -- Parallel Machines -- Multiple-Part-Type Production: Single-Gripper Robots -- Multiple-Part-Type Production: Dual-Gripper Robots -- Multiple-Robot Cells -- No-Wait and Interval Robotic Cells -- Open Problems
N2  - Intense global competition in manufacturing has compelled manufacturers to incorporate repetitive processing and automation for improving productivity. Modern manufacturing systems use robotic cells — a particular type of computer-controlled system in cellular manufacturing. THROUGHPUT OPTIMIZATION IN ROBOTIC CELLS provides practitioners, researchers, and students with up-to-date algorithmic results on sequencing of robot moves and scheduling of parts in robotic cells. It brings together the structural results developed over the last 25 years for the various realistic models of robotic cells. After describing industrial applications of robotic cells and presenting fundamental results about cyclic production, several advanced features, such as dual-grippers, parallel machines, multi-part-type production, and multiple robots, are treated. Important open problems in the area are also identified. This book is an excellent text for use in a graduate course or a research seminar on robotic cells
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/0-387-70988-6
ER  -